GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| ultimate | last in a progression or series : final |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |